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Age of Innocence – 1965, Motorway Speed Limits, Woodbine Cigarettes and Exams
1965 was the hundredth anniversary of the end of the American Civil War and to celebrate appropriately the United States started a new one in Vietnam. American troops had been there for some time of course but on March 2nd, following an attack on a United States Marine barracks, Operation Flaming Dart and Operation Rolling Thunder commenced and the war was official.
An estimated six hundred and twenty thousand soldiers died in the American Civil War and one million one hundred thousand in Vietnam.
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Age of Innocence – 1963, US ZIP Codes and X-RAY Specs
As a teenager I used to read American superhero comics like DC and Marvel and I was always tempted to respond to the full page advertisements for such things as a complete two hundred piece civil war army for $1.49, a miniature secret camera for only $1.00 or a free Charles Atlas body building course.
What prevented me filling in the order form and sending off the cash was not the rather critical fact that I had no idea how to exchange my paper round money into dollars but rather the fact that I didn’t know what a ZIP code was.
